I'm still hesitant to purchase these packages. On the plus side, I would get the cosmetic items (that were originally part of the gamecard promotions), the access to betas, and not have to worry about paying for a year.
On the negative, I don't want the runecoins or spins, and if basing the price only on a year's worth of membership, it's more expensive than what I would normally pay (I have one of the grandfathered prices). I know someone will say "But you're getting runecoins for free, too!!" However, I wouldn't normally pay for the runecoins, and I don't want them now; basically, rather than getting a discount, I'm being forced to buy runecoins if I also want any of the other benefits.
What I would really like is a package that doesn't include the runecoins, and is less expensive than the grandfathered price. Otherwise, I'll suffer missing out on the cosmetic items just so I don't have to have those microtransaction 'freebies'.
16-Jan-2013 21:02:56